Women's Voices. Women Vote.
This week, WVWV released a demographic report and extensive PowerPoint presentation that detail the seismic shift in America since 1960, when America moved from a nation where marriage was the norm to today, where 45 percent of all adults in the United States are unmarried and half of all women live on their own.
Today, WVWV and the Center for American Progress release a new report outlining relevant legislation in the current Congress that will advance the economic security of all Americans and especially unmarried women.
The report follows up from our 2008 report on the public policy needs of unmarried women and sets out a comprehensive economic security agenda focusing on jobs and the workplace, single mothers, housing, health care, personal finances, and retirement.
On Monday the President of the United States is sitting down with Steve Grove from CitizenTube and will be answering a series of questions generated directly from their Youtube channel. They have about eight video questions up right now, but none of them are from women.
There are currently more than 51 million single, separated, divorced, or widowed women in the United States. Unmarried women are also one of the fastest growing demographic groups.
Today’s workforce is comprised of employees with diverse family structures and changing life responsibilities. The prevalence of single workers and their diverse life circumstances means that workforce policies should address their needs. Indeed, we need to pay attention to the different ways that women are living their lives, and establish policies that will enable unmarried women to take care of themselves and their families.
Today’s panel entitled Work Policies and Single Women: An Examination of the Work Issues Facing Single Women, With or Without Children will explore how the continuum of single women are challenged by work policy issues?
Page will be joined by moderator, Marcia G. Yerman, Huffington Post; Lisa Maatz, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, American Association of University Women; and Melanie Notkin, Founder of the blog Savvy Auntie.
Be sure to tune into Fem2.0 blog radio here at 11:30 am to hear the panel.
Tonight is an historic occasion as the nation’s first African American President will deliver his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and the American people. In response, the editorial team at Alternet has released their advice for the issues that President Obama should address, including the economic hardships of unmarried women.
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